Episode 151: Healing Through Divorce with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, PhD
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
There is no one better to talk about the healing process of divorce than Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, aka the Divorce Doctor. She is a clinical psychologist, the author of Light at The Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You, and a true expert on the topic of how to heal and thrive during divorce.
The last time Elizabeth joined me on the show, we discussed the importance of processing your emotions. This time we dig even deeper and talk about how healing is a slow, steady, and often imperfect process. We also explore how to become the most loving ally to yourself.
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Don't forget, next week I'm doing a three-part workshop in my Facebook group entitled: So You've Decided to Get a Divorce: WHAT NOW? The vital steps you need to take to move forward with confidence and clarity. RSVP to the invite here. Don't miss out! (Available only to members of the SISOSIG Community)
Show Highlights
- No matter what you're feeling now, you have the ability to move through difficult times and actually heal. (7:28)
- Healing is a slow, steady process where you take micro-moments towards change. (12:22)
- We discuss the first steps to identifying and working through your emotions. (14:48)
- Loving yourself again means realizing that you and your needs matter. (24:31)
- If self-love is a hard concept at the moment, think of it as moving from self-loathing to a feeling of neutrality with yourself. (26:56)
- Toxic environments require you to shut down your feelings. It is not your fault. (30:55)
- Tools to continue to heal through divorce, including the "Sacred Pause" or writing yourself a love letter. (31:28)
Learn more about Dr. Cohen:
Dr. Cohen, a clinical psychologist, is the author of, Light at The Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You which debuted at #1 on Amazon in popular psychology.
She is the CEO and founder of the online divorce course and membership Afterglow: The Light at the Other Side of Divorce. Dr. Cohen is the CEO of the Center for CBT in NYC. Dr. Cohen's online course teaches women how to heal, grow and thrive after divorce no matter how difficult the process has been.
Dr. Cohen received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University. She was the recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation Research Award for her research on the emotional effects of 9/11.
She has been featured on the Tamron Hall Show, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Women's Health, Huff Post, Thrive Global, Daily Beast, and Good Housekeeping.
Dr. Cohen is a weekly contributor to Psychology Today with her "Divorce Course" column.
Dr. Cohen's Divorce Doctor podcast which shares people's divorce stories hit 10,000 downloads in only 3 months.
Resources & Links:
Join Kate's Free Live Workshop on January 17, 18, and 19th. All you have to do is be in her Facebook
Dr. Cohen's book
Dr. Cohen's website
Dr. Cohen on Facebook
Dr. Cohen on Instagram
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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome back to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | You can hear I'm still totally stuffy. |
| 0:52.9 | Getting better. |
| 0:53.9 | Every day is just a little bit better. |
| 0:56.0 | Fucking eyelashes. |
| 0:58.0 | Anyway, I'm here today with an amazing episode about healing through your divorce with my dear friend, Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. |
| 1:09.0 | And we're going to get to that in just a minute. But I wanted to |
| 1:11.2 | update you on a couple of things first. The first thing I wanted to let you know is that in case |
| 1:17.3 | you missed it before, I am going to be hosting a free three-part workshop in my Facebook group. So it's only going to be there. Sorry, everybody. The topic is, |
| 1:33.9 | so you've decided to get a divorce, what now the vital steps you need to take to move forward |
| 1:40.0 | with confidence and clarity. So this is going to be January 17th, 18th, and 19th at 1 o'clock |
| 1:45.9 | p.m. Pacific time, 4 o'clock Eastern exclusively in the Facebook group. So if you're not |
| 1:52.7 | in the group, join it if you identify as a woman. Sorry, guys. And then you'll see the event |
| 1:59.5 | invite in there or notice or something. And make sure you RSVP so that you get notification when I go live and when the workshop starts and all that stuff. So it's a three-parter. So join us. We've got one part on taming codependency. Big deal. We've got another part on sort of getting your ducks in a row, |
| 2:22.5 | and then we've got sort of moving forward stuff. So it's going to be great, and you should totally |
| 2:30.0 | be there. So there's that. I also wanted to give you guys a little bit of update on my dating life |
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